Monday, May 25, 2015

Online Courses Fail at Community Colleges

More evidence for one of the most uniformly-verified findings I've seen in education: online courses strike out for community college students. From a paper by researchers at U.C.-Davis, presented at the American Educational Research Association's conference in April:

“In every subject, students are doing better face-to-face,” said
Cassandra Hart, one of the paper’s authors. “Other studies have found
the same thing. There’s a strong body of evidence building up that
students are not doing quite as well in online courses, at least as the
courses are being designed now in the community college sector.”